A Community Mourns Together

Murrieta Ca. is a city that has grown to a population of 100,000 since it incorporated in 1991 with 27,000 residents and was a close-knit small town. The residents, myself included, voted to tax ourselves so our own fire department could be formed and the dept. has been a source of community pride ever since.

Today we once again have that small town sense of community as we mourn the death of one of our first firefighters, Captain Matt Moore, who passed away Monday night after being in the hospital since December fighting a rare form of meningitis.

On Saturday March 8 the residents of Murrieta came together for a pancake breakfast fundraiser to benefit Capt. Moore and his family and raised close to $40,000 to help them thru this difficult time. What a great community we are fortunate to live in and be a part of and Capt. Moore will be greatly missed not only by his family and fellow firefighters but by the whole city as we have lost one of our own.

Donations to the Matt Moore Family Fund that has been set up by the Murrieta International Association of Firefighters can be made at Wells Fargo Bank, 41232 Murrieta Hot Springs Road.